My advisor. Luckily, I graduated before he's tenured. Sadly, he threw me under the train for his tenure. But would never work with him, who cares?
People that stoped producing papers after tenure
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To be fair, if you're not in an top PhD-granting Economics Department -- means you're at a lower-ranked economics department, or in the econ division of a business/policy school, your chance to become deadwooded is just very high. Without good PhD students around, becoming deadwooded is optimal.
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Yes, it is simply very tough to work as if you are 20 or 30 years old alone (i.e., without RAs).
To be fair, if you're not in an top PhD-granting Economics Department -- means you're at a lower-ranked economics department, or in the econ division of a business/policy school, your chance to become deadwooded is just very high. Without good PhD students around, becoming deadwooded is optimal.
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The real question is whether you will ever need to move. For those with families and roots, deadwood is optimal. If you think you might want to, or need to, move at some point, then you have to keep outside options alive and keep publishing. But if you know you are set in place, why bother? Research is fun, no doubt. Publishing isn't. No-one goes through rounds with referees because of passion for the profession - regardless of what they say.